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Melanie Smithson
Aug 24, 20210 min read


Melanie Smithson
Aug 24, 20210 min read


Play For Your Health: Renewing the Joy of Service
The very word "caregiver" conjures up images of one who sacrifices him or herself for the good of others. The burnout rate for those...
Melanie Smithson
Mar 26, 20212 min read


What is all this resistance about?
What is all the resistance about? “Most of us have two lives. The life we live and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands...
Melanie Smithson
Feb 2, 20212 min read
Coronavirus
Coronavirus-what we know and what to do As of this writing 82,721 cases of Coronavirus and 2,817 deaths have been reported worldwide...
Melanie Smithson
Feb 27, 20203 min read


I am not a body I am free
A Course in Miracles and the Body In my experience, knowing that I am not the body does not prevent me from working with the body’s...
Melanie Smithson
Feb 14, 20203 min read


Telling Stories to Avoid Feeling
Here’s an example: The neighbor’s dog runs out into the street and gets hit by a car. I’m devastated. It brings up grief for the family,...
Melanie Smithson
Oct 29, 20192 min read


Lets Talk About Play
Let’s Talk About Play! Hearing about another school shooting incident in Colorado brought me to tears. Along with grief for victims and...
Melanie Smithson
May 9, 20192 min read


Practicing Kindness
8 Ways to Be Kind to Self All too often, when I suggest to a client that they learn to be kinder to themselves, I am looked at as if I...
Melanie Smithson
Apr 2, 20191 min read


8 Ways to be kind to self
All too often, when I suggest to a client that they learn to be kinder to themselves, I am looked at as if I have three heads. I get it,...
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Apr 2, 20191 min read


Was that a gift?
Or maybe you meant to say contract? In our "A Course in Miracles" group last Saturday (during a discussion about giving without wanting...
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Oct 30, 20182 min read


At the end of your rope?
What to do when every little thing is annoying… Do you have days (weeks? months?) where everybody and everything gets under your skin? It...
Melanie Smithson
Sep 4, 20182 min read


What to do when every little thing is annoying...
Do you have days (weeks? months?) where everybody and everything gets under your skin? It happens to the best of us. Maybe you haven’t...
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Sep 4, 20182 min read


Are you beating the fun out of yourself?
Are you beating the fun out of yourself? Would you like to have more fun? Are you waiting and waiting for it to happen? Most would say...
Melanie Smithson
May 17, 20182 min read


How Do We Let Go?
In 30 Ways or Less It’s one thing to know you should let go and to even want to let go and it’s another thing to know how and actually...
Melanie Smithson
Jan 23, 20183 min read


Let Go Feel Good
Why Should I Let Go? Welcome to part one of Why, How, When and Where to let go. As with anything, when it comes to letting go, the mind...
Melanie Smithson
Nov 30, 20172 min read


Is stress killing you?
"A critical shift in medicine has been the recognition that many of the damaging diseases of slow accumulation can either be caused or...
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Oct 31, 20172 min read


Danger of Dismissing Stress
Is Stress Killing You? “A critical shift in medicine has been the recognition that many of the damaging diseases of slow accumulation can...
Melanie Smithson
Oct 31, 20172 min read


Making fun of yourself!
In a most delightful way! Do you take yourself just a little too seriously? Most of us do. We think that what we think, what we believe...
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Jul 15, 20172 min read


Making Fun of Yourself
In a most delightful way! Do you take yourself just a little too seriously? Most of us do. We think that what we think, what we believe...
Melanie Smithson
Jul 5, 20172 min read
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